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Is grassroots citizen science a front for big business?

20 mins | Nov 28, 2017

Is it all good that non-scientists are able to conduct experiments and share their findings? Philip Mirowski, writing in Aeon magazine argues that the supposedly democratic concept of citizen science is little more than a cheap land-grab by big business.